The latest from the National Book Critics Circle, including links to our members’ latest reviews, awards info and all things NBCC related.
News & Notes
Announcements
March 7, 2023
30 BooksA Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors, trans. by Caroline Waight
By Lori Feathers
In this collection of illuminating essays Danish writer Dorthe Nors explores the untamed, tumultuous North Sea coast of Denmark where she was raised and to which she returns to make... Read More
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March 6, 2023
30 BooksFree Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
By Jennie Hann
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January 31, 2023
AwardsNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022
By Megan Labrise
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December 8, 2022
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Announces Inaugural Longlist of Barrios Book in Translation Prize
By NBCC
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Critical Notes
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March 21, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Halima Elmajdoubi
This Thursday is our big night! The NBCC awards ceremony, followed by a reception. First, tomorrow, we’ll have virtual readings from the finalists. Register here if you haven’t already. Meanwhile, our 30 Books... Read More
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March 14, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Halima Elmajdoubi
Dear NBCC Friends, The in-person NBCC awards ceremony is coming up next week! Register here if you haven’t already. Meanwhile, our 30 Books in 30 Days series is complete, with... Read More
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March 6, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By David Varno
We are thrilled to return to an in-person awards ceremony and reception this year, hosted by our longtime sponsor, The New School. We’re also deeply grateful to continue our relationship... Read More
Criticism & Features
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March 12, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor
30 Books
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly GageIn her towering biography of one of the most powerful unelected officials in American history, Beverly Gage tells the story of the quintessential Government Man, John Edgar Hoover. He reigned... Read More
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March 10, 2023
David Varno
30 Books
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl PinckneyConsummate essayist and novelist Darryl Pinckney’s lively and layered memoir has so much going on—any given page is rich with anecdotes, insights, and searching questions—that it eludes a quick summary.... Read More
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March 9, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor
30 Books
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. GreenidgeSarah and Angelina Grimke have been celebrated as the sisters who came to abhor the slave system upon which their prominent South Carolina slaveholding family’s wealth depended. They defied the... Read More
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March 8, 2023
J. Howard Rosier
30 Books
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter BrooksThough aimed at the literary humanities—the loose cluster of English, philosophy, history, and theological studies that, if current debates are any indication, have fallen on hard times—Peter Brooks’s Seduced by... Read More